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Serious A290 crash in Canterbury on 31 July 1997 at 23:55 involving a BMW M3

A BMW M3 crashed on the A290 in Canterbury at 23:55 on Thursday 31 July 1997. The male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
31 Jul 1997
Thursday, 23:55
Vehicles
1
BMW M3
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27897, longitude 1.07334, in the CT1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Canterbury

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199746CT00089
Council area
Canterbury
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
290
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
290

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 May 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW M3

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    2,990 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M3)

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199746CT00089 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Canterbury road accident statistics for 1997.